Cass County: A Near Miss is a Good Thing

In golf, just missing the green is usually a problem. In Cass County, Missouri, a near miss is a good thing.

The most southern county on metropolitan Kansas City’s Missouri side, Cass is largely separate from the region’s urban core or its contiguous suburbs. Even its most built-up sections are largely independent, separate communities with unique identities, self-contained school districts and an absence of many challenges that face more urban areas.

Yet Cass County’s strategic location increasingly benefits from its northern neighbors. Though primarily located in Jackson County, Richards-Gebaur and its multi-modal international network are likely to impact Cass County the same way KCI influenced Platte County. Developments such as Loch Lloyd and the regional powerhouse of Johnson County, Kansas, have an expanding influence here as road improvements increase access to the county. Surrounded by such development and with its affordable acreage and highway network, Cass County is in an enviable position.

All of this might be less valuable if Cass Countians were not moving to take advantage of these opportunities. But with a combination of in-county collaboration and favorable state and federal action, the area is working hard to exploit its prospects. By nearly every measurement, Cass County’s “near miss” is really a hole in one.

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